Organization Achieves a Stable, Cost-Effective, Modern and Scalable
Virtualized Platform After a Migration from VMware to Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that the Government of the Canary Islands has
migrated its virtualized systems from VMware to Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization to meet the growing demands of its IT department. The new
infrastructure, based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, JBoss
Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is designed to
provide support for the telecommunications, information technology and
computer communications infrastructure of the government. The migration
improved the consolidation ratios of virtual machines per host and
resulted in budget savings of up to 70 percent compared to the costs
associated with the previous VMware virtualization platform.
As the Government of the Canary Islands' previous virtualization
infrastructure could not keep up with the organization's growing
workloads, it set two objectives when it came to upgrading it. The first
was to promote convergence between horizontal and vertical growth so the
government could take its physical machines up to their maximum capacity
and thereby reduce the number of hosts, increasing efficiency. The
second was to adopt a virtualization solution that could respond to its
requirements, reducing cost of ownership as much as possible and
minimizing risks in terms of quality of service and future continuity.
Having evaluated its options, the public body found that Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization was more cost-effective and provided greater
capacity and improved service levels and continuity. The proposal put
forward by Red Hat provided cost savings of up to 70 percent compared
with proprietary solutions, while enabling the IT department to adopt a
modernization plan, well-suited to the requirements of the Government of
the Canary Islands.
Preparing for the future, the government wanted to avoid being tied to
providers with unpredictable costs, or to technologies that might not
develop or even disappear over time. In these respects, the
technological roadmap provided by Red Hat, the capacity that its clients
have for influencing that roadmap in a collaborative fashion, the model
of annual subscriptions with predictable costs, the fact that it is
based on public, open source technology and the soundness of Red Hat as
a company were all decisive factors in the choice made by the Government
of the Canary Islands.
Once Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization was installed on its IT systems,
the government was able to increase from average consolidation ratios of
seven virtual machines per physical server (7:1) to 27 virtual machines
per host (27:1), in addition to making a saving of 10 percent in disk
space, achieving greater reporting capacity and a general simplification
of the architecture.
A key factor in this project was teamwork. Red Hat consultants brought
significant expertise to bear on the solution and the automation and
optimization of the data centre processes. Red Hat partner Qwerty
offered the public body the best services at a local level, providing
the greatest speed and efficiency possible. Thanks to this, the
Government of the Canary Islands was able to successfully migrate a
complex virtual infrastructure made up of almost 100 physical servers
and 1,000 virtual machines, both Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
in just four months, reducing costs and succeeding in improving
operational efficiency and the service provided for citizens, both now
and in the future.
"Virtualization with Red Hat offers a solid platform, in addition to a
clear vision of its roadmap," said Darío Iván Ortega Valido, computing,
telecommunications and new technologies department for the Government of
the Canary Islands. "What's more, the budgetary sustainability provided
by the Red Hat solutions and the positive results achieved in tests
carried out with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization were of crucial
importance when it came to changing our virtualization platform."
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